Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..:(

[vynan]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

199,

You are an inspiration mate. Read the entire post, seems like a very similar story to mine, I pray I reach those numbers you have put on board champ!

Vy

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

vynan;1609249 wrote: 199,

You are an inspiration mate. Read the entire post, seems like a very similar story to mine, I pray I reach those numbers you have put on board champ!

Vy

Yes you can !

Read . Jason Vale kick the drink. The link to the blog I posted on here somewhere and search AVRT bullets on google read the bit about the structural mode of addiction and follow the bullets !

In less than a weeks time I will be 2 years stone cold sober and I can honestly put hand on heart and say it's the greatest thing I have ever done for myself. I have wasted so many years with it , hungover or recovering from hangovers ,dark thoughts drunken incidents , upsetting people etc the list is just endless. I now look younger weigh 3 stone less and am training for my first half marathon , but more importantly I just feel totally free to do what I want when I want . Standing around A bar with other sheep pouring a toxic drug down my throat every fri/sat /sun seems very absurd now , I pity people that still have to do this because they have been brainwashed like I was from an early age that this is how adults enjoy life

I cannot think of one thing positive about drinking , every time I think of something which I imagine could be positive I have a hundred thoughts debunking it .

Just gone through my second Christmas NY and a big birthday for me sober again and I can honestly say I loved it . Cool remembered everything and mixed socially even better than when I was drinking, work that one out lol danced sober FFs.

I wake up everyday now just happy the way I am , no panic attacks dark thoughts nothing and I now sleep like a baby , that is a major plus as I always thought I was a diabolical sleeper but as we all know my sleep issue along with many other negative things that have happened in my life where caused by alcoHELL.

ADDICTION .

Make your plan to never drink again ever , kill the beast in its tracks , do not pander to it day by day ..tell it you ARE never drinking again. No hoping or trying tell it I am done I am NEVER drinking again.

Sober is so cool , the further I go the cooler I feel.

Good luck , you will do it.

[vynan]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Thanks 199,

Will practice your attitude and I am sure that it will work for me as well as many others. Coincidently I have started training for participating in a 10k run and amazingly the body is a wonderful machine and already started clocking 6+ within 2 weeks of quitting. When I used to drink, I used to grasp for air in a 1-1.5k walk!

Vy

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Cruising

Well nearly 2 years 1 month stone cold sober and I must admit it's getting easy now , cravings are just not there , cannot believe they have gone this silent , little thoughts every now and then but nothing like the intense cravings I had in the first year , it's no lie it gets easier and easier the further you go.

Was In London the other night , went to the cool Chinese restaurant on the 33rd floor of the shard , loved it and was so super cool being sober drinking a fruit cocktail, quite a few round were not drinking either, noticing more and more people recently who are out but not drinking, maybe the tide will fully turn one day and we rightly will look at drinkers as we do smokers , call me crazy but smoking is far more safer than drinking us , just my view btw

In the newspapers past few weeks so many horrible incidents, violence and always alcoHELL involved , drinking is such a shitty mind altering substance changes everyone that drinks it . Today in the daily mail 2 pages of pictures of Liverpool students rolling round the streets drunk , such sheep. Why do supposedly bright individual people adopt such a herd mentality and become dull sheep poisoning themselves because everyone else is. Sober students , how cool is that.

Be cool , be sober

[Byrdlady]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

I am so happy to hear you are doing well! If you think year two is good, wait til you hit year 3!!! You are right it is such a blessing. I thought I would NEVER make but here we are! MindPeace is more intoxicating than the booze! So good to see you!

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Byrdlady;1625790 wrote: I am so happy to hear you are doing well! If you think year two is good, wait til you hit year 3!!! You are right it is such a blessing. I thought I would NEVER make but here we are! MindPeace is more intoxicating than the booze! So good to see you!

Aww thank you so much . Only thing though that constantly gripes on my mind is the sheer waste of my life I gave to it , kind of tortures me from 15 years old onwards , my developing mind was severely stunted because of it I am sure of that .

But one must move forward .

Thanks again Byrdlady

[Byrdlady]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Yes I totally understand. Almost a lifetime wasted in my case! But you will come to terms with that too! In my opinion, the best is yet to come!!! Xo.

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Byrdlady;1625799 wrote: Yes I totally understand. Almost a lifetime wasted in my case! But you will come to terms with that too! In my opinion, the best is yet to come!!! Xo.

Thanks !

When I run alone early mornings , I think everything through , I feel so good .

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Been through rough patch

Day 801.

Hope people do not mind me talking to myself on this thread, I intend to keep it going because it helps me so much just to kind of blog it

Think My smugness and coolness have taken a tumble because I have been craving a bit recently even thought about just saying bollox and going to get F&65765d up This all started when I had to meet some freinds For a 5)th in a pub, it was wet cold and the whole setting warm pub Guinness and friends just kind of sent my mind into overdrive it was a very hard day but I came out sober and still hanging onto my sober time, later I felt so glad. Then Next day RMT leader Bob Crow died at 52 and I started thinking even more , what's the point of anything really , life living just all BS so therefore why really care about drinking drugging, mad fatalist thoughts I know but this is what I have been like up till about a week ago.

Met a friend who has been sober 4 years last week for coffee and he put me right, we had a long chat discussed my thoughts and he really helped me stabilise

No early morning Runs, NO freedom , the trap, hangovers , imsomnia and death like thoughts will all come back if I return to drinking.

Cannot throw away 801 days sober, think I would be suicidal if I did . Can anyone with long sobriety kind of give any advice here thanks .

[NotHappyHourHappyLife]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

No early morning Runs, NO freedom , the trap, hangovers , imsomnia and death like thoughts will all come back if I return to drinking.

Cannot throw away 801 days sober, think I would be suicidal if I did . Can anyone with long sobriety kind of give any advice here thanks .

Hello 199....... I don't have the experience to give you advice (unless you count my first 17 years of existence, ).........

BUT! I want you to know that your honest post has me chasing your heels. You are a true inspiration for others of us here!

Keep running, 199! :groupluv:

Patty

[199days]

Over 300 days and Brutal cravings today..

Thank you to you lovely people ^^^.

Day 833.

Back on track , mindset back on track

Last week spent 5 hours on a boat for friends birthday going up and down the Thames , free bar band etc and drunks lol . Five years ago if I was told I had to do something like this sober I would have laughed my head off in horror ! Not only was I double cool on the boat I danced laughed and had a great time , work that one out also being surrounded by people drinking for such a long time really does make you glad you don't have do it anymore. I stared at the ceiling that night lying in bed thanking it in happiness that I am a non drinker and will be for the rest if my life , it's so bloody liberating.

Early days for being sober sometimes feels nothing will get better and nothing is the same , it's just perception and the way you have been brainwashed for years to feel this way ( Jason vale helped me here) .

You have to grind through the tough phases to get to a point where you can make it and then things get better and better.

Not drinking is really cool now, as the red faced throng around you drink and slur you stand aloft sober and cool free thinking, can't get much better.

Younger people who do not drink. Wow cannot think of anything cooler , wish I had could be a teenager early twenties now and be sober so amazing that would be , god I wasted so much time with it , weekends weeks wasted being hungover over years and years , sad.

But onwards and upwards ,me I am ever going back and I feel great now . Every morning been making a nutribullet drink for breakfast , spinach apple berries nuts , the difference is unreal , skin is so much better , weight loss and more energy truly best thing I have bought in years .

Lastly , entered the ballot for next years London marathon , fourth time maybe I get lucky this time and get a place .Shin splints are annoying me recently so plenty of ice packs and rest but it's set me back a bit and I so miss running when I can't run these niggles injurys are part and parcel of running a lot so just got to rest it out lol.

Take care peeps , join the sober is cool movement !